Gateshead has emerged triumphant in a contest to find the hippest street in Britain. South Shore Road, which boasts a Norman Foster-designed music centre, has won the prize in a competition hosted by Google designed to find the best streets in Britain. This might come as something of a shock to London, always confident about its hip credentials, which only managed to creep in at third place.

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